Saturday, May 26, 2012

Google Nexus tablet details leaked, will be quad-core and may include Jelly Bean

A “trusted source” speaking to TechnoBuffalo has confirmed many of the
details about the upcoming Nex

us tablet…although whether or not Google’s
7” tablet is actually named “Nexus” is not one of those details. The
source did confirm that it will be built by ASUS and will be one of the hardware giveaways for Google I/O on June 27th, something we’ve been expecting ahead of its July ship date.

One
exciting tidbit is that they also were receiving “conflicting reports”
on whether or not the tablet would come preinstalled with Jellybean, the
next major version of Android. That would come as something of a
pleasant surprise, since many analysts were not expecting the next major
version of the little green robot operating system to appear until late
fall or early winter.

Also of great interest is the source
indicated that the tablet would indeed be rocking a quad-core Tegra3
device, not the dual-core solution that some had expected in light of
Google’s attempts to price their tablet aggressively. Of course NVIDIA has said
on more than one occasion that part of their project strategy is to
help bring to market a sub-$200 Tegra3 tablet, so we may still get the
low price point that many of you have been hoping for.

Who out
there would be interesting in a $199 quad-core Nexus tablet running
Jelly Bean this summer? We reckon quite a few people would be. Is it too
good to be true? Most of the hardware and pricing rumors seem
reasonable. We have no idea how close Jelly Bean is to fruition,
although in the past Google has turned out major software updates in
less than a year, so it’s not impossible, even if it’s far from certain.
And in a way it’s just a matter of months either way – even if Jelly
Bean doesn’t hit until this fall, we’re sure the vanilla Android tablet
would be one of the first devices to get the update.